Published 1:00 pm, Friday, October 8, 2010

If you're looking for something fun to do on Saturday, don't miss the annual Punkin' Days celebration in Floydada.

The day is jam-packed full of events that start early in the morning and don't end until late afternoon.

The event will kick off with a 5K race at 8 a.m., followed by a one-mile fun run at 9. Registration begins at 7 a.m. in front of Farm Bureau on the northeast side of the square.

Arts and crafts booths, as well as food vendors, will be set up around the square beginning at 9 a.m.

The museum will be open for visitors and will host rope making activities until 5 p.m.

At 9 a.m., be sure to enter your pumpkins in the decorating contest at the pavilion. Four categories are available - best decorated, prettiest, smallest and largest. Judging will take place at 11.

Also, be sure to enter your favorite pumpkin goods and recipes at 9 a.m. Judging takes place at 11.

In order to jump start their 25th Anniversary Cookbook slated to come out in 2012, the Floydada Chamber of Commerce is asking those participating in the pumpkin baked goods contest to bring a copy of their recipe.

The Chamber produced a similar cookbook for the 10th anniversary and decided the 25th anniversary would be a good occasion to produce an updated version.

Those interested in having a recipe in the book can e-mail them to charlamcham@gmail.com. Recipes will be taken through 2011.

The bake-off is composed of five categories - Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin Cake, Pumpkin Bread, Other Pumpkin Dessert and Miscellaneous Pumpkin. Entries will be taken from 9 a.m. until judging begins at 11 a.m. around the pavilion. Winning dishes will be auctioned at 4 p.m.

Another activity beginning at 9 a.m. is the classic car display and show.

Also, Floydada Friends of the Library will have a used book sale from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. just east of the Floyd County Courthouse. All funds benefit the library or other city projects.

A cake walk at the pavilion will start at 9:45 a.m.

Be sure to stay at the pavilion to be entertained by local performers beginning at 10 a.m.

The Chamber is bringing back an old favorite, with the pumpkin pie relay race. After being absent the past five years, the relay race is scheduled to take place at 4 p.m. Registration will take place prior to the race on the south side of the courthouse square. Entry fee is $10 per four-person team.

In the race, teams will race around the square, only instead of using a baton to pass to their teammate, participants will have to eat a piece of pumpkin pie - piled high with whipped cream - as they make their way down the block.

"People looked forward to this, so we decided to bring it back," said Charla McHam, promotions coordinator. "And it's pretty fun to watch!"